Posterity Project '21
Platoon 4 - Station 4
A website celebration of today's future HFD retirees.
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NOTE: An asterisk (*) heading a caption denotes an image that can be enlarged by clicking on it.
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| * Left to right: Lieut. Mike Dowling, Ff. Dave Beaton, B/C Tom Doherty (Ret.), Ff. Rob Phelan, Ff. Tom Paranzino, and Ff. Cal Brennan |
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An invitation brought our brother, B/C Tom Doherty (Ret.), and a fellow retiree to Station 4 earlier this week for a tour of the station where he was house captain from 1977 until his 1984 promotion to shift commander. Station 4 underwent a massive renovation starting 12 years ago this month. Tom said he hadn't visited the place since his retirement exactly 25 years ago last week.
Posted 9/3/21
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| * First, a greeting from Fire Chief Gary Merwede, who was assigned to Tom's Platoon 3 as a new recruit 27 years ago, when their first encounter resulted in, "Lieutenant, ya wanna tell the bald guy to get off the Rescue!" - LOL!! |
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| * Ff. Beaton and B/C Doherty. The "Alarm Room" looked much different than when Tom was house captain. |
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| * Access to, and quick exit from, the upper floor |
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| * Same corner after renovation - Spiral staircase gone - Pole still there, just out of camera range |
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| * Apparatus floor before renovation (from the top of the spiral staircase) |
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| * Apparatus floor after renovation |
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| * Pole before renovation |
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| * Pole after renovation |
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| * With B/C Ron Desroches, working today on Pl. 4, on retired B/C Gary Couture's first official day of retirement. |
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| * The "Day Room" in 2009 |
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| * The "Day Room" after renovation. The arrow denotes approximately where the clock in the 2009 photo was placed. |
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| * Ff. Beaton generously provided the retired B/C with a replacement "Retired" decal for his new car. |
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| Officer's Room before renovation |
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| Officer's Room after renovation |
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| Bunkroom before renovation |
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| Bunkroom after renovation |
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| Johnson could not resist taking this view of Dave and the retired B/C because . . . |
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| . . . in the same location nearly 40 years ago, on October 31, 1981, he took this shot of retired D/C Ken Harrington with Ff. Jimmy Koutsopolous. Same shift was working, too. |
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| * June 1971 - Here's a rather youthful looking Lieut. Thomas Doherty showing some school kids (now well over 60!) the fairly new Maxim 1,000 gpm pumper at Station 4. |
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